Some additional details about the website
Here for the analysis? It’s over here!
If you’ve finished reading the analysis, or got bored and hit the home page, Hi, I’m Sophia! I’m a student at the University of Waterloo and Wilfred Laurier University, pursing a double degree in BMath and BBA.
I find people fascinating. I love hearing their thoughts, and more importantly, WHY they think that way. That’s the fun part, no? The ‘Why’ is why I like psych - it tells me about the underlying reasons behind actions, and forces people to confront their opinions. It’s a process I’m trying to get better at too, but MAN, is it interesting to listen to others.
Personality, in particular, it quite interesting to me. How easy it is, to compartmentalize people into distinct groups, then tell everybody they’re unique! Of course, the previous statement is true - we love to seek patterns, especially in behavior. But how did that come to be? What are people normally like? That stems into nature/nurture, and various other points, but the Big Five is a high-level look this - it’s almost a nice introduction.
I don’t get any electives until my 3rd year, so I’ll need to wait a year until I can even consider taking a psych course. This is a way to tame that desire for the time being, alongside learning about other psych niches! Not only that, but it’s a good way to brush up my data skills.
As for this project, I’m using R (and their various libraries), I’m exploring Open Psychometric’s data set on their Big Five quiz. Visit HOME to hear more about that.
If you have any questions about my project or would like to reach out, please contact me here! You can also learn more about me on my website: zhusophia.github.io